Where waves roll onto the beach, sand the color of sable— that wet
surface on which fleeting messages are written: a kind of paper.
Restaurant napkins, gas station receipts, the merest strip of found
Chinese fortune cookie fortune: I’ve scribbled on these instead of paper.
In a calligraphy book, the character for poetry combines the ideographs
for “mind” and “dancing”. Tiny birds leave prints on the shore: their paper.
Old newspapers, bits of grass, leaves and petals, bark:
sieved through a screen frame, they find new lives as paper.
Sun not yet high, but frost melts quickly. Grass glistens. The world is full
of screens. But I prefer a window full of steam on which to draw— like paper.
In response to an entry from the Morning Porch.
There are sixty-one keys on a pipe organ keyboard. This is #61 of your series. Coincidence? I think not!
You are at the top of your form with this poem, Luisa.
i think this is lovely
finding the different writing surfaces in nature.
Thanks, Larry and Lucy :)
Lovely to read Luisa-ghazals and hop off to another world while on aggravating phone hold! Hello, dear Luisa!